Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle snapped the radio on occasionally for early election returns, but went to bed at 2 o'clock with no clear idea of the results and left his telephone receiver off the hook. Next morning he got congratulatory calls from people who had been trying to get in touch with him all night...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick is no man to let others transact his important business. When Publisher McCormick decided to go to Tokyo, politicos guessed that General Douglas MacArthur was to be measured for a presidential toga. The Colonel kept in close touch with his Chicago Tribune readers, as usual...
During the last part of the game Harvard kept the ball near their goal, but nothing more was accomplished. The score of the game was: Harvard one goal and one touch-down; Princeton, on touchdown...
Little by little, due to what the Princetonian quaintly calls "innumerable broken bones," the sprees acquired regulations. Today they are little more than minor Olympic matches with the Sophomores and Freshmen fielding teams in touch football, softball, track, and topping it off with wrestling bouts for the possession of the grand old cane...
...Soph touch gridders tramped the '51s 12 to 0, but the yearling softballers won 5 to 1. Sophomores ran faster and tugged a rope harder and pulled into the lead as the afternoon pounded ruggedly...